Working it out (From York Press)
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Working it out
12:33pm Monday 3rd September 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter
IN 2010, I finished work due to ill health, two years early. I went to claim Jobseekers’ Allowance and tried to look for light work.
I was told I could not claim anything due to having a small railway pension. My severance pay was paid into my bank monthly at £1,700 per month, but six months later the company went bust (Jarvis Rail). We lost £10,000 in wages.
Now at 66 I have received a tax bill for £702 for the tax year 2010/2011. I have not worked since March, 2010.
I rang the tax office hoping for them to explain. Two assistants were quite rude and off-hand.
According to them it was no one’s fault and they suggested I put a cheque in the post. I put the phone down.
Last week I got the same tax bill. On ringing the tax office again, I spoke to a very nice woman and will now be paying the tax back over three years, still with no explanation of how the mistake was made.
I worked and paid tax for 48 years, yet they still chase me for more. The bone-idle continue to put nothing in, but take plenty out.
D Edge, Stockton Lane, York.
Comments(9)
ColdAsChristmas
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2:51pm Mon 3 Sep 12
sheps lad
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4:01pm Mon 3 Sep 12
ColdAsChristmas wrote:You just did!
Seems to me that the only beneficiaries are those that pay nothing into the system, both the the idle and the immigrant if I'm allowed to say that!
CHISSY1
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6:18pm Mon 3 Sep 12
ColdAsChristmas wrote:"I say the same thing"
Seems to me that the only beneficiaries are those that pay nothing into the system, both the the idle and the immigrant if I'm allowed to say that!
Matt_S
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6:42am Tue 4 Sep 12
ColdAsChristmas wrote:You're allowed to say it. Doesn't make it true though.
Seems to me that the only beneficiaries are those that pay nothing into the system, both the the idle and the immigrant if I'm allowed to say that!
Do you have any evidence to back it up? How much do immigrants as a whole pay in tax? How much do they claim?
CHISSY1
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8:29pm Tue 4 Sep 12
Matt_S wrote:"Very little,if any, and to much.That answer your question".
ColdAsChristmas wrote:You're allowed to say it. Doesn't make it true though.
Seems to me that the only beneficiaries are those that pay nothing into the system, both the the idle and the immigrant if I'm allowed to say that!
Do you have any evidence to back it up? How much do immigrants as a whole pay in tax? How much do they claim?
Matt_S
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2:38am Wed 5 Sep 12
CHISSY1 wrote:No, it does not.
Matt_S wrote:"Very little,if any, and to much.That answer your question".
ColdAsChristmas wrote:You're allowed to say it. Doesn't make it true though.
Seems to me that the only beneficiaries are those that pay nothing into the system, both the the idle and the immigrant if I'm allowed to say that!
Do you have any evidence to back it up? How much do immigrants as a whole pay in tax? How much do they claim?
ickyplush
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8:04am Wed 5 Sep 12
CHISSY1
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4:47pm Wed 5 Sep 12
ickyplush wrote:"Exactly".
Britain is the finest place to live,providing you are not British...........
old_geezer says...
1:09pm Mon 3 Sep 12